ECOWAS Member States Sign Historic Intergovernmental Agreement

21 Jul ECOWAS Member States Sign Historic Intergovernmental Agreement

(Oilandgaspress) 21/07/26, – The African Atlantic Gas Pipeline (AAGP) Project has received a major boost towards its actualisation as the Heads of State of ECOWAS Member States have signed the Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) for the project at the ECOWAS Summit in Freetown, Sierra Leone, at the weekend.

The AAGP is a transformative regional infrastructure project designed to unlock West Africa’s vast natural gas resources, connect them to major demand centres, integrate African energy markets, and establish a strategic development corridor linking West Africa, the Sahel, Morocco, and Europe.

Designed to deliver 30 billion cubic metres of gas per year, the project has sovereign backing from Nigeria, Morocco, ECOWAS member countries, and Mauritania, and spans nearly 6,900 kilometres along the West African Atlantic coast.

Jointly led by NNPC Ltd and Morocco’s Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines (ONHYM), the project is intended to strengthen energy access, drive industrialisation, and deepen regional integration across the continent.

The latest signing by the ECOWAS member states gives practical effect to the approval granted at the 66th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Summit in Abuja in December 2024. It also concludes the institutional process coordinated by ECOWAS following the 2022 Memorandum of Understanding between Nigeria and Morocco and reaffirms the strong commitment of the participating States to the project.

A subsequent ceremony will complete the intergovernmental framework with signatures by the Kingdom of Morocco and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.

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